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[horizontalthebird]

Welcome to my blog, oh weary traveler!

I am Horizontal.

He/they preferred.

Genderfluid and probably aroace.

(all posts and art made by a human, i do not permit any of my work to be used in ai in any way, nor fed into it for training. )

Beneath you will find my introduction and all such information

( cleaned up version of intro )

About me

Local fanfiction lover/writer

Lover of all things shiny, a very proud bird.

Chaotic gremlin

Choas incarnate

With a horrible sense of humor

Collector of various perfumes bc I like smelly stuff that smells good

Lover of purple and apparently green

Artist, writer, ceramicist ( sorta, I dabble ) hoping to do photography, and many other arts I’ve dabbled in.

All around queer

Adhd ( and potentially the tism, unsure )

Lover of hurt/comfort ( and wisher of cuddles that aren’t romantic BECAUSE WHY SOCIETY MUST TOUCH BE ROMANTIC)

DNI If

You’re a bigot

Or if you do not like the content of my blog

I block freely and readily. I use the block button like a toddler would reach for the cookie jar. All the time, I encourage you to do the same :)

This blog is

Safe for everyone. ( but bigots )

Inclusive.

A dumping ground for any thoughts I have.

Will have fandom content, random stuff, art, and whatever I feel like.

Anti censorship

A melting pot of anything and everything that comes to mind

Mostly sfw but not always. This blog is not safe for young children.

My fandoms in no particular order

The Witcher

Percy Jackson

Supernatural

Hermitcraft

Vampiressmp

Third life smp ( and all in series)

The Magnus archive

Alaris ( vn )

A date with death ( 1&2)

The greenhouse (webtoon)

[cozy-stardust]

Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.

Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.

And Rocky has to suddenly reconcile that the clumsy leaky blob that saved his life twice, that almost certainly doomed himself to come back for him, name is Mercy.

[till-dawn-do-us-part]

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[our-trans-punk-experience]

If anyone needed another argument against it

[horizontalthebird]

Becuase fuck ai.

[horizontalthebird]

Seaweed touch

A Brielle x reader fic ( preview)

Postmaster uses they/them and is rather detached bc of the insanity bit.

( hc that we’ve waited multiple loops before we started getting storyline costumers for angst purposes. No plot, just ansgt.)

The post officer had stoped counting weeks. It had been many, their memories of their first few weeks had begun blurring like the fog in their customer window.

The post officer had just sat down to begin stamping letters for the day after the last customer had dropped off a package when the bell rang again.

They hoped this customer was normal. Whatever passed for normal here. The last one had dropped off a wet package that wouldn't dry!

The feeling of it was awful. They didn't even need there letter opener to open it, the cardboard has practically crumpled on their hand.

Their hand still felt slimy! They'd have to make sure to take a nice long shower once their mandatory relaxation time started.

They put their stamp down and went to greet the customer.

There was a women at the door with short hair and a rough face. she seemed strong, with veins showing beneath her arms and neck.

"Here to drop of a package." She said as she slid a package through the box. They looked at it as it dropped down to the side of the window.

It was a big one, and would be a pain to pack into the truck with how many explosives they'd received today. ( why did the people here think sending volatile and dangerous substances through the mail was a good idea? It really, really wasn't.)

They turned to take the package to stamp it, expecting the women to leave. She didn't. costumers always left after dropping off their packages or item. This was the first time one had stayed. It was odd. ( it was exhilarating. It was Change.)

[linuxgamenews]

Letter Lost: Unraveling Secrets Under the Post Office

Letter Lost single-player turns  a post office simulation office job into a strange mystery game on Linux and Windows. FlatNine Games keeps bringing strange, smart ideas to life. Which you can find on Steam with a launch discount. Letter Lost sounds cozy for about five seconds, then the dungeon under the post office starts to matter. This new post office simulation launches on Steam with native Linux and Windows support, giving PC players a weird, dark mystery about mail, secrets, and escape.

A Normal Job, Except Not Really

You wake up under the post office on Kharnym Isle. There is a bed and cracked stone walls. There are scratch marks you are very clearly meant to ignore. That is the hook, and honestly, it rules. Letter Lost comes from independent developer FlatNine. It is the studio’s debut title, which makes this launch feel even sharper. After about two and a half years in development, the team has finally pushed its strange little mailroom nightmare.

Letter Lost Has Native Support

For Tux players, this is the big part. Letter Lost is launching on Linux. This is not a case where we have to cross our fingers and hope Proton behaves. The source confirms native support right at launch. Steam Deck support or Steam Deck verification has not been confirmed in the source, so Deck owners should check the Steam page before buying. Still, a native version is always nice to see. It gives players a cleaner starting point. It also matters to people who want more games to treat Linux as a real PC platform. No benchmarks or frame-rate targets to compare. System requirements are on the Steam page. So there is no reason to invent performance talk here. What we can say is simple: Letter Lost is a new release with confirmed support.

Mail Sorting With Bad Vibes

The setup is simple in the best way. You are the only employee at the Kharnym Isle Post Office. Your job is to stamp, sort, and deliver mail. Letters and packages need the right address. Then they go into the mail chute. Stamp. Sort. Deliver. Repeat. That sounds calm. Maybe even cozy. Then the gameplay starts nudging you toward the wrong drawer. The locked space. The weird switch. The resident who knows too much. The letter you probably should not open. And yes, you can open the mail. The gameplay makes it clear that this is not allowed. It also knows curiosity is stronger than rules. That is where the mystery starts to bite.

Letter Lost | Official Trailer

The Island Has Secrets

Kharnym Isle is not just a backdrop. It is full of residents, stories, and strange little threads to pull. You can keep your head down and do the job. You can also talk to people and read what was never meant for you. Due to dig into the island’s lore and secrets. The game is built around choice. You can listen to Liv, your supervisor on the old rotary phone. Ignore her, act like a perfect employee, or become the most nosy postal worker alive. Those choices shape the story. FlatNine says Letter Lost includes multiple endings, more than a dozen story lines, collectables, and several secrets. That gives it the kind of replay value mystery fans love. It also means one run may not show you the whole picture.

A Long Shift at the Post Office

A single playthrough is due to last 10 to 15 hours. Completionists can expect more than 20 hours if they want every hidden secret. That is a strong size for a story-rich indie release. It is not trying to be endless. It sounds more like a focused mystery box with a lot tucked inside. The post office itself also sounds packed with things to poke at. Drawers, switches, puzzles, and odd details all seem to matter. That kind of design can be great on PC, where small interactions and environmental clues feel right at home.

The Radio Might Keep You Company

Letter Lost also has a strange audio side. There are eight radio channels and several phonograph records to find. Some channels are silly. One has all-day yodeling. Another plays songs about sleep or rain. There are also talk radio programs with voices from fans, streamers, and content creators. That is a fun touch. It gives the office a sense of life, even when the job feels trapped and wrong. A glowing Steam Deck screen late at night, a quiet room, and a weird radio station in the background sounds like the right mood for this one. Just remember, Steam Deck support itself has not been confirmed.

A Small Team Gets Its Launch Day

FlatNine sounds ready for players to finally see what has been hiding behind the counter. “After about 2.5 years in development, we’re beyond excited to finally be able to give our fans a glimpse into what’s really going on at their permanent place of work,” said Harrison Wade, Co-Founder of FlatNine. He also teased new customers, maybe even a workmate, and the chance to choose how you spend “the rest of your eternal career” at a totally normal post office. That line gets the tone across fast. The Letter Lost gameplay wants to be funny, strange, and unsettling all at once.

Letter Lost Is Worth Playing

Letter Lost post office simulation launches on Steam for Linux and Windows at $17.99 USD / £15.97 / 18,44€, with the 10% launch discount. That makes it an easy one to flag for Linux game searches, especially for players who like odd simulators, mystery, and psychological horror. It has no confirmed Steam Deck status in the source, and no shared performance numbers yet. So check those details before you jump in on handheld.

[horizontalthebird]

Don’t mind me I’m obsessed with this game

[horizontalthebird]

LETTR LOST HC

Bc I’m obsessed and have around 20+ almost 3 hours of playtime ( this is also a plea for fanfic writers bc I have to many wips and cannot take on another nonexistent fandom )

So we play as a post worker who goes through the same ( but diff) week each week. Week after week

While slowly going insane

And we remember each week. As you get shredded and it eats your whole body or finger or as you die of age or drown.

The human body is a funny thing. Phantom aches and pains don’t go away when the body heals.

That’s physiological.

Also touch starvation. Imagine being completely alone aside from customers for weeks and weeks, getting no touch but your own.

( I may be projecting there but oh well, it’s true )

The angst potential for that alone is magnificent, the truama of reliving the same weak. Going insane, forgetting who you are while desperately trying to escape only to fail time and time again as you get closer only to get even more questions and so few answers.

Make this game blow up because I NEED MY FICS.

[horizontalthebird]

more pics of Brielle, aka my new obsesion. bc there is no posts of her. hc soon maybbee

[horizontalthebird]

Liv didn’t let me romance Brielle

Sobbing and crying

I’m now going to make a new save and attempt to figure out how to romance sedna and then get them two together bc yeah. And then I’ll go back to other save so yeahhhhh.

[horizontalthebird]

letter lost

Okayyyy so I was playing letter lost ( brand new game that’s is sooooo worth my money )

And BRIELLE! I love her, adore her and her snarky ass attitude from her very few voice lines and uhhh, I’ve certainly got nothing straight to say about her design.

[barillapasta]

i95 perfec t place for european to c\ross! cars very Soft and Slow european cross easily put european on 95. Put football fan On 95. no problems ever on i95 because good Crosswalks and Stoplights for european walk to met life stadium for european pedestrian culture. i95 yes a place for a european put european on 95 can trust new jersey for giveing good love to european. friend i95

[dapperzz]

[aspecmemesdaily]

Source | Day 88

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

I fucking hate it here

[some-sort-of-ecologist]

For those of you with android devices, you can use the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) standalone app control program to get rid of all the bloatware, data mining, and AI crap - no coding needed!

[d-e-w-p]

save

[clatterbane]

There are also Android-based alternatives like GrapheneOS and LineageOS, which are pretty easy to install. These are unfortunately available for a more limited range of devices (Graphene is ironically Pixel only, while Lineage supports more), but it's very worth checking out whether one of them might work for your phone.

GrapheneOS: the private and secure mobile OS

GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

LineageOS Android Distribution

Typing this from Graphene now, in fact. But, both of those take the Android Open Source Project, without all the bloatware--and largely de-Google the whole thing. They give you much more control over privacy and what the apps you choose to install can do and access on your phone.

I know Graphene sandboxes everything, including the optionally installed Google Play Services which a lot of apps unfortunately require to run. (Lineage uses an alternative to Play Services instead.) So, you can install what would normally be unacceptably intrusive apps and just lock them away from pulling any funny shit with your data, or phoning home. Including the couple of Google things I do still keep around.

I also prefer running much more transparent, privacy-respecting open source apps where possible. Besides the transparency, I'd rather avoid the shitty tech corps entirely where I can. There are pretty good alternatives available for a lot of the usual suspects.

AlternativeTo lets you find apps and software for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android, Android Tablets, Web Apps, Online, Windows Tab

An alternative app store:

F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy

[clatterbane]

Also just going to leave this here.

ReVanced

Continuing the legacy of Vanced.

GitHub - ReVanced/revanced-manager: 💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android

💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android . Contribute to ReVanced/revanced-manager development by creating an account on GitHub.

This lets you pretty easily patch some of the worst offender corporate apps to make them behave better.

[theconcealedweapon]

[maarvarq]

Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.

[theconcealedweapon]

Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.

[tiny-space-whale]

No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.

[fanfic-prompts-from-the-depths]

DP x DC Prompt - Kittens of Her Own

When Selena reconnected with her ostrasized cousin Jack Fenton, she had no idea what it would end up spiraling into. 

Jack had always been the black sheep of the family. She remembered how her parents would gently encourage her to not talk too long with him whenever they were at a family gathering together. They’d stopped inviting the Fenton branch of the family before Selena finished middle school. It wasn’t until years later - when they were in their late twenties - that Jack had reached out to Selena to reconnect. She’d been reluctant at first - her parents’ gentle warnings still echoing in her head - but slowly, they reached an amicable kind of acquaintanceship that consisted of phone calls and Christmas cards.

She had still been shocked when Jack had invited her to come to meet his newborn daughter. She’d been even more shocked that she had said yes. 

As she held little Jasmine Alicia Fenton in her arms in that squeaky, uncomfortable visitor’s chair in a tiny Illinois hospital, Selena felt her world tilt slightly to the left. 

She was still Catwoman. She would never be able to give up the thrill of the chase - both for the treasure and the Bat.

She was still Selena Kyle - a socialite who used every connection she had to climb higher and weave her way into more and more networks, all to better understand her targets.

But she was also Auntie Lena. She made phone calls to talk not with her cousin, but with her niece - because even if technically they were second cousins, Selena decided they were aunt and niece. She sent a little girl elaborate birthday presents and surprised her with a week long girls trip in the summer every year.

And when she helped Jazz hold her baby brother Daniel James for the first time, Selena had finally accepted that she was absolutely gone for these kids. She couldn’t mock Bruce for his adoptive tendencies anymore. Not now that she understood what it meant to look at a child that wasn’t yours and loving them anyway.

Now there weren’t just gifts of kitty plushies and books of brain teasers, but ones of model rockets and photo albums filled with thick, glossy photos from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The girls trips became sibling getaways with their awesome Auntie Lena.

The first time Jazz called her asking how to make mac and cheese when she was six years old, something twisted in Selena’s stomach. 

The first time Danny called her to ask how to deal with someone picking on him at school, that twisting became a heavy lead weight.

The first time Jazz asked if she and Danny could stay with Selena for the week since Jack and Maddie were leaving for a ghost hunter convention next week and still hadn’t found them a babysitter, that lead weight sharpened into a steel point.

She was determined to give these kids a good childhood. Even if it meant offering to let the kids come stay with her for the entirety of summer vacation. Even if it meant screaming herself hoarse on the phone with Jack after Jazz told her about him leaving samples of something from the lab in the kitchen fridge where either of the kids could have eaten it.

Still, she tried to let them keep their parents close. Even if she couldn’t understand it, Selena could tell that Jazz and Danny loved Jack and Maddie, and nothing Selena could say would change that.

When Selena opened her door to find her teenage niece and nephew on her doorstep at three in the morning in Gotham, hearing her niece cry about how Danny had some sort of accident in the lab and neither Jack nor Maddie had taken him to the hospital or even noticed, she made a decision.

She was determined to give these kids a good childhood.

Even if that means taking these kittens in herself.

It took a few weeks and a few favors from some friends of hers who kept a good law firm on retainer, but she managed to get it done. Jazz and Danny were moved to Gotham and set to begin at Gotham Academy next semester. Danny was set up to see a trusted family physician who knew how to keep his mouth shut. And if Selena decided to sic OSHA on her cousin and his wife in order to get their lab - and their portal - shut down, well, who was going to blame her?

The growing pains were there, or course. 

The kids were used to seeing her only for short bursts of time as the fun aunt, not as the full-time parent who had to do the less glamorous parts of caretaking - such as setting curfews and grounding.

Selena had to get used to not being able to move as freely around her home at all hours of the night. Not without a solid alibi.

The sudden onset of powers was certainly a challenge. How did one keep a teenage boy from sneaking out when he had suddenly developed the ability to turn invisible and walk through walls?

The answer turned out to be simply - you didn’t.

Three months after Jasmine and Daniel Kyle came to Gotham, Catgirl and Stray arrived on the scene.

[uniasus]

Dp x Dc - Jack 'Eddie' Fenton

Tim has 'Uncle Eddie' in his back pocket for years. Everything that should go to his parents go to him, from parent-teacher conferences to private school broucher. He's just an email and a PO Box, and it should be so easy to make him 3D via an actor when Tim's parents die.

Except...there is a real Uncle Eddie in his parents' will.

Tim hadn't made the name up, just clung to the idea that out there he might have an uncle who would care for him from a conversation he overheard while young.

'Eddie' is actually Jack Edward Fenton, named for the same Jack as Jack Drake had been. He'd followed family naming patterns too, with a son called Daniel Jackson Fenton.

Eddie doesn't care about the Drake fortune, or DI, or even the manor. But he very much cares about Tim, offering hugs and attention in a way that makes him dizzy. Eddie, Jack, is just as big as Bruce and three times as affectionate. He might be just as smart, if a lot more scattered brained.

He's the perfect uncle that Tim has been dreaming of for years, and the offer to join the Fentons in Amity Park is very tempting, even if it means giving up Robin. He's given up so much for Bruce, can he afford to be selfish just a bit? Join a normal family, with cousins, in a small Midwest city? Have family dinners?

It might be boring. It might be wonderful.

He notices Danny on the edge of the family, smile wide and fake. Jazz's hovering, and management of her parents.

It might be needed.

[ryoalouette]

DP x DC

Of which Vlad IS related to Bruce

Their Bat-ness must have came from a common ancestor. And that adoption thing.

But anyways.

Imagine Vlad contacting Bruce with his fam out of the blue, asking BRUCIE, HI NICE TO TALK TO YOU AFTER LONG PERIODS OF ABSENCE BUT IVE A QUESTION THAT NEEDS TO BE ANSWERED FOR MY KWN SAKE- how do you get your children to be civil with you???

Bruce: ... I am not aware you adopted kids Vladdie?

Batfam, listening to the conversation: it's cute that Masters tot we're civil to Bruce at all times lol

Vlad: Currently I have my godson with me and he's acting a lot like a combination of your sons in gala disasters.

Bruce: which gala disasters you're talking about? Coz you know we have the Rogues attacking galas aaaaallll the time-

Vlad: you know what I mean, cousin. Richard in the chandeliers, little Damian stabbing the handsy ones, Timothy making people cry left and right between his blackmails and "conspiracy theories"-

Bruce: (tries to imagine all that Feral in one body and failing)

Batfam: (omg new cousin sounds lit)

Vlad: so yes Brucie, I need some advice, please and thank you.

(Unseen: Danny gnawing his leg)